CONNECTING, SUPPORTING, AND PROMOTING
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
IN WEST LOTHIAN
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE IN WEST LOTHIAN
West Lothian has a growing and vibrant social enterprise sector offering a wide range of products and services.
We are proud of our diverse ecosystem of organisations covering sectors from cleaning and envrionmental management, to care services, employment and training, food, theatre, community, housing, children & young people, older people, business development, and so much more!
We are a network of enterprises who have a social purpose at heart.
A LITTLE ABOUT US
West Lothian Social Enterprise Network (WLSEN) is a membership network composed of leaders in social enterprise in West Lothian. Social enterprises help our communities thrive socially, environmentally and economically.
WLSEN supports the social enterprise sector in West Lothian.
Learn more about WLSEN, and the benefits of becoming a member
WHAT EXACTLY IS A
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE?
A social enterprise is a business that trades for a social and/or environmental purpose. It will have a clear sense of its social aim – what difference it is trying to make, who it aims to help, and how it plans to do it. Most of its income will be made through selling goods or services and it will have clear rules about what it does with its profits, reinvesting these to achieve its social aims.